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Sheriff's office reports call-volume trends; deputies to be recognized for lifesaving efforts
Summary
The Sawyer County Sheriff's Office reported recent patrol and crash statistics, announced life-saving award recognitions at the county board meeting, and noted two sponsored part-time deputies will begin academy training; the jail report showed an average daily population of 55 in May.
The Sawyer County Sheriff's Office told the Public Safety Committee its patrol calls totaled 865 in May, up from recent months but down from 1,020 calls in the same period last year.
Lieutenant Repinski reported May patrol activity included 45 traffic citations, 38 written warnings and 11 non-traffic citations. He said crash mapping shows 21 personal-injury crashes in the most recent reporting period with no additional fatalities; the year-to-date total is 111 crashes, 18 personal-injury crashes and one fatality.
The sheriff's office plans to recognize several deputies for lifesaving actions at the June Sawyer County Board meeting, the sheriff said. The office also announced two sponsored part-time deputies, Madison Waller and Nick Pompuc, will start LEO academy training in Rice Lake on June 2.
On the jail report, staff said the average daily inmate population for May was 55 (12 females, 43 males). The breakdown included 18 inmates classified as probation incarceration, 19 as pre-sentence inmates and 18 as average sentence incarceration. The report also noted five people on electronic monitoring on the day the report was generated and that 83% of inmates had an unemployment rate at time of booking.
Committee members asked no substantive follow-up questions during the reports.
